Ludii as a Competition Platform
This is incremental, offering a new competition framework for AI researchers interested in game-based challenges.
The paper introduces Ludii as a platform for AI competitions in traditional strategy games, comparing it to existing general game playing systems to highlight its potential for driving algorithm improvements and new research.
Ludii is a general game system being developed as part of the ERC-funded Digital Ludeme Project (DLP). While its primary aim is to model, play, and analyse the full range of traditional strategy games, Ludii also has the potential to support a wide range of AI research topics and competitions. This paper describes some of the future competitions and challenges that we intend to run using the Ludii system, highlighting some of its most important aspects that can potentially lead to many algorithm improvements and new avenues of research. We compare and contrast our proposed competition motivations, goals and frameworks against those of existing general game playing competitions, addressing the strengths and weaknesses of each platform.